Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Moreover, if the Romans had been able to receive a rule of\r\nlife from their gods, they would not have borrowed Solon's\r\nlaws from the Athenians, as they did some years after Rome\r\nwas founded; and yet they did not keep them as they\r\nreceived them, but endeavoured to improve and amend them.<a id=\"FNanchor_105_105\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_105_105\">[105]</a>\r\nAlthough Lycurgus pretended that he was authorized by\r\nApollo to give laws to the Lacedemonians, the sensible\r\nRomans did not choose to believe this, and were not induced\r\nto borrow laws from Sparta. Numa Pompilius, who succeeded<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_67\">[Pg 67]</a></span>\r\nRomulus in the kingdom, is said to have framed some laws,\r\nwhich, however, were not sufficient for the regulation of civic\r\naffairs. Among these regulations were many pertaining to\r\nreligious observances, and yet he is not reported to have\r\nreceived even these from the gods. With respect, then, to\r\nmoral evils, evils of life and conduct,—evils which are so\r\nmighty, that, according to the wisest pagans,<a id=\"FNanchor_106_106\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_106_106\">[106]</a> by them states\r\nare ruined while their cities stand uninjured,—their gods\r\nmade not the smallest provision for preserving their worshippers\r\nfrom these evils, but, on the contrary, took special pains\r\nto increase them, as we have previously endeavoured to prove.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-149"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3898ab5eeb3f9b313d0365e32ae043a34670d50d8374d7eeb9cd09d4d2268113","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_106_106","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_106_106","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_106_106\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_106_106\"><span class=\"label\">[106]</span></a> Possibly he refers to Plautus' <i>Persa</i>, iv. 4. 11-14.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_106_106","text_sha256":"18dbff779d519bcd82c5f9c8f3d0e764e6e56e35097ff3df79bd15da6ad0a7ad","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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